Civil society organisations and trade unions believe the super rich should pay a solidarity tax to enable the National Health Insurance (NHI). Addressing a parliamentary Oversight Committee, the Budget and Expenditure Monitoring Forum – comprising the Treatment Action Campaign, SECTION27, Black Sash, Sonke Gender Justice Network and the National Union of Mine Workers – said it was estimated that the multibillion-rand health insurance would face a shortfall of more than R47bn by 2016.
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‘Solidarity tax’ fpr NHI
